Complete programme and schedule (S8) 2015
The complete programme and schedule of (S8) 6th Mostra de Cinema Periférico is already available in our website. We are also delighted to present this year’s image of the festival, in which the patterns and ondulations make reference to the streets of the country protagonist of this edition: Brazil.
The patterns and shapes that this year make up (S8) image are not casual, as they have a link with the country which is the centre stage: Brazil. For Brazilian people building their identity –brasilidade– is a living process that somehow has been entrusted to artists. Far away from Brazil, the one portrayed in the tourist brochures, in the vastness of the largest country in South America, there lies a lush and self-sufficient cultural activity. Here we find a group of filmmakers for whom celluloid is a tool and not a fad, which blooms in selvas do concreto that are the Brazilian cities: this is where the film paradise is spread, which would have been impossible to find if it had been searched in tropical jungles and beaches. A creative kaleidoscope formed by the amalgamation of sensations and references, the cultural mix and the fresh air of an imaginary still under construction.
It is here where shapes and patterns come. What unites such a large country is precisely the ground that is walked on, overrun by undulating mosaics, which like the capital they built –Brasilia, an attempt to model their identity in concrete from scratch–, shows the ability of Brazilian people to find plasticity in what is stiff. Thus, the name of one of the program of this year devoted to the new Brazilian filmmakers, Paraíso do Concreto, summarizes (S8) program of this year: from these new filmmakers to the historical Brazilian avant-garde of Veja o Brasil, the Paulista filmmaker Marcos Bertoni, who stands up for recycling and super 8 found footage among what the city rejects, Paula Gaitán’s construction of identity through her own memories and the retrofuture of Distruktur, a Brazilian duo living in Berlin (a city that had to be reinvented and rebuilt). Somehow it connects with the guest of honor of this year: Ken Jacobs, from another concrete jungle, New York, port of entry into the New World (North), and part of a country whose identity has been built on celluloid for the last 120 years. An invention of cinema (which also includes its own reinvention and breaking of forms) in which he has been a participant since late 50s. As part of the invention of the avant-garde cinema was the city, twisted and shaped by the power of creativity of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, which opens the festival with a recently restored version.
Paraíso do concreto lands in A Coruña. And the new films made in Galicia –to be seen in Sinais– welcome it. And paradoxically it often looks like a forest more than a city.